Quotes About Gender

Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

My dear boy, no woman is a genius. Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.

Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.

Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.

A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.

Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.

I don't know that women are always rewarded for being charming. I think they are usually punished for it!

An educated woman is a worthless woman.

An educated woman is a stupid woman

This is the Victorian era, she said. Women didn't have to make sense.

They say that women dream of danger to those in their care and men of danger to themselves.

Females of domestic reputation lounged upon the balconies they passed with faces gotten up in indigo and almagre gaudy as the rumps of apes and they peered from behind their fans with a kind of lurid coyness like transvestites in a madhouse.

They say that women dream of danger to those in their care and men of danger to themselves. But I dont dream at all.

I just meant maybe you could set here and drink one of em with me. He squinted at her. You ever notice how women have trouble takin no for a answer? I think it starts about age three. What about men? They get used to it. They better.

What runs so contrary to received wisdom is that it really is the male who is the aesthete while the woman is drawn to abstractions.

She said that femininity encoded mandates that were far less forgiving than anything men were familiar with.

He saw so many emotions mingled on her face: anger disappointment, fear – and defiance. Like her daughter, thought Fenoglio again. So uncompromising, so strong. Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn't break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out, very slowly.

That was the use of knives for women: to cut food for the men who killed with their knives… who killed those women's husbands, their sons, and their daughters.

EShe wanted to compare Meggie to a hero from some story, but all the heroes she could think of were men, and anyway none of them seemed to her brave enough for comparison with a girl standing there perfectly straight, scrutinizing Capricorn's men with her chin jutting out defiantly.

I was willing to bet that if I were a dude coming back to the Sofitel late at night with a couple of underage hookers, no one would bat an eye, state of emergency or no state of emergency. But let a lady try and show some sisterly solidarity, and suddenly it was ENFORCE ALL THE POLICIES. Fuck that.